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MINERVA and MEDCULT
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Organigramma
Il ministro
Il vice-ministro, i sotto-segretari, il gabinetto
Dipartimento per i beni
culturali e paesaggistici
Dipartimento per i beni
archivistici e librari
Dipartimento per lo spettacolo
e lo sport
Dipartimento per la ricerca,
l’innovazione e l’organizzazione
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Direzione Generale per
l’innovazione tecnologica
e la promozione
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The Italian Ministry
• 4 general directorates (libraries and archives,
cultural and landscape heritage, research and
innovation, sport and entertainment)
• 17 regional departments
• 89 superintendencies (for archaeology, architecture
and landscape, cultural heritage etc)
• 134 archives and archive offices
• 47 state libraries
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MINERVA
MINERVA was a network of the EU
ministries of culture, including also Israel
and Russia.
It aimed at correlating and harmonising
the activities carried out in the field of
the digitisation of the cultural heritage.
MINERVA was the operative section of the
National Representatives Group for
digitisation (NRG).
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What is the NRG
The NRG is a group of experts officially nominated by
the Member States to address the issue of the
digitisation of cultural heritage at European level.
The NRG:
•guarantees the cooperation among the Ministries
and the cultural insitutions, and among them and the
EC;
•gives visibility to national policies and programmes
and to spread EU initiatives at local level.
The NRG meets every 6 months under the aegis of the
presidency in turn of the European Union.
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The European framework
NRG and MINERVA operated in the
framework of the European initiatives
eEurope (until 2005) and now the new
Dynamic Action Plan which addresses
the topics about digitisation of the
cultural heritage across Europe.
http://www.minervaeurope.org/publicatio
ns/dap.htm
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MINERVA endorsement
MINERVA became a European point of
reference for the digitisation issues and
the creation of cultural web sites.
The European commissioner Viviane
Reding mentioned several times
MINERVA and its tools as European
point of reference for the digitisation of
the cultural heritage (June 2005).
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The MINERVA Galaxy
R&D Constellation:
Learning Constellation:
Minerva, MinervaPLUS,
Bricks, Calimera, Digicult,
Eurydice, university networks
EVA, Prestospace, TEL, Delos
Implementation
Constellation:
Michael, MichaelPLUS
NRG
Cooperation
Constellation:
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MedCult, Strabon, Unesco
European Digital
Library Constellation:
MinervaEC,
content
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enrichment, targeted projects
How MINERVA worked
MINERVA set up a network of hundreds of
European experts of many fields of the
cultural heritage (museums, archives, libraries
etc.).
MINERVA created a shared European platform
made up of recommendations and guidelines
on digitisation, standards, long-term
accessibility, and quality of cultural web sites.
MINERVA generated spin off projects like
MICHAEL and MICHAELplus (www.michaelculture.org) and MINERVA eC (under
evaluation).
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The past…
MINERVA ended in January 2006.
Its extension, MINERVA eC, is under evaluation.
The EC reviewers said that :
• MINERVA had performance higher than expected
• MINERVA outlined an open roads for further
development, to be addressed by several “off-springs”
which have been emerging from the initiatives of this
creative consortium
• care must be given to provide the fairest chance to
the MINERVA products and results to achieve maximal
impact
• it is opportune to make the role of MINERVA stable in
order to support the Ministries of Culture and the NRG
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… and the future
• The Dynamic Action Plan: the road map of the
digitsation of cultural heritage in Europe, endorsed by
the Member States and the European Commission.
• The MINERVAeC proposal (MInisterial NEtwoRk for
Valorising Activities in digitisation eContentPlus Supporting the European Digital Library)
MAIN OBJECTIVES:
 Capitalising the results of MINERVA;
 Implementing recommendations undertaken by the
NRG;
 Large involvement of the cultural institutions (more
than 150) and stakeholders;
 Standard Agreements and Interoperability
Frameworks;
 Coordination of content enrichment projects.
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The MINERVA products 1
• Technical Guidelines for Digital Cultural
Content Creation Programmes
• Good Practice handbook
• Data model for the description of digital
cultural inventories
• Prototype French-Italian portal
• Annual Progress Report on digitisation
• Guide to Intellectual Property Rights and Other
Legal Issues
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The MINERVA products 2
Tools for the quality of cultural web
sites:
• Handbook for quality in cultural
Web sites
• 10 Quality Principles
• Quality Principles for cultural Web
sites: a handbook
• Museo&Web
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Technical Guidelines for Digital
Cultural Content Creation
Programme
Available in: de – el - en - fr – it
Url:
http://www.minervaeurope.org/pu
blications/technicalguidelines.htm
Downloaded files:
8,000 (on MINERVA website)
11,000 (on French Ministry of
Culture website)
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Good Practice Handbook
Printed copies:
3,000 (en) + 1,000 (fr) + 1,000 (it)
Online version: de – ee - el – en - fr – hu - it –
lv - pt – sk
Url: http://www.minervaeurope.org/structure
/workinggroups/goodpract/document/go
odpractices1_3.htm
Downloaded files:
more than 55,000 copies in all its versions
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Handbook for quality
in Cultural Web sites
Printed copies
500 (en) + 3000 (it)
Online versions: en - it
Url:
http://www.minervaeurope.org/publicatio
ns/qualitycriteria.htm
Downloaded files:
35,000 (on MINERVA website)
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Cultural Website Quality
Principles – Postcards
Printed copies:
1000 x 5 (de - en - fr - it nl)
url:
http://www.minervaeurop
e.org/userneeds/qualitypri
nciples.htm
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Example of use of the MINERVA
products
The MINERVA tools for the quality of the
cultural web sites were endorsed by the
Italian Ministry and used for:
• The web sites of museums, libraries,
archives of the Ministry
• The Italian Culture Portal
• The Observatory for the technology
applied to the CH (www.otebac.it)
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Quality Principles for Cultural
Website: a handbook
Printed copies:
4,000 (en)
it+fr under preparation
Online version: ee - en - el – fr – hu - lv
url:
http://www.minervaeurope.org/pub
lications/qualitycommentary_en.ht
m
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Top 10 of the most downloaded files
1. Good practices handbook v. 1.2
2. Manuale per la qualità dei siti Web pubblici culturali
3. Handbook for quality in cultural Web sites v.1.2
4. Technical Guidelines for Digital Cultural
Content Creation Programmes v. 1.0
5. Manual de Boas Práticas v. 1.3
6. Quality Principles for Cultural Websites: a Handbook
7. Manuale per la qualità dei siti Web
pubblici culturali v. 1.0 draft
8. MINERVA booklet
9. Guida alle buone pratiche v.1.2
10. Quality principles handbook (draft version)
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28,683
13,454
10,693
9,489
6,540
5,627
4,198
4,041
3,831
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The most downloaded files
The most downloaded publication:
The good practices handbook (56,680 copies), in all its
versions and languages (Manual de Boas Práticas N.
5!).
But also all of the different tools for the quality of the
cultural web sites (Handbook for quality in public
cultural applications, quality principles and quality
principles handbook etc) reach 61,120 copies.
TOTAL amount of the top 20 downloaded files list:
141,479 copies
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MINERVA and IFAP
Preparatory actions:
• MINERVA and NRG were introduced at the
Information for All Programme conferences
in
Russia
(Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
September 2003 and Saint-Petersburg June
2004);
• Official inviation to the formal meeting of the
IFAP board in Paris in October 2004 and Tunis
in March 2005.
May 2005:
MEDCULT project approved by UNESCO for
funding.
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MEDCULT
May 2005:
MEDCULT project approved by UNESCO-IFAP for
funding, to spread MINERVA products through
Mediterranean Arab countries, in cooperation with the
STRABON network
December 2005:
MEDCULT kick-off in Rome
Workshops:
April 2006, Alexandria (Egypt)
May 2006, Rabat (Morocco)
August 2006, Amman (Jordan)
http://www.minervaeurope.org/MEDCULT/home.html
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MEDCULT main goals
General scope:
promoting information literacy, through capacity
building particularly for information professionals
In particular:
• To translate and diffuse among partners the MINERVA
criteria for a quality web communication of the
cultural heritage
• To organised workshops over the countries involved for
experts of both cultural and education sectors
• To set up a replicable model of workshop
• To outline a study on the creation of a permanent
network of experts
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Available tools
• Cultural web sites quality principles:
12 EU languages (including EN & FR) >
translation into Arab
• Quality Principles for cultural Web
sites, a handbook: available in EN, FR,
IT > translation into Arab
• Museo&Web: available in EN, FR, IT
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"International Conference on future
coordination of digitisation"
Luxembourg 21 June 2005
Mme Viviane Reding,
Commissioner for the Information
Society and Media at the EC cited
many times in her speech the
MINERVA project, as excellent
example of European co-ordination
of digitisation of cultural heritage
programmes and politices.
Amongst her words:
“MINERVA a également mis en ligne
un prototype pour les petits musées
afin de les aider à développer un
site internet de qualité”
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The seminars
FOCUSED SEMINARS
• organised by the MEDCULT partners in their respective countries;
• organisations from the cultural and educational sectors in the target
Mediterranean countries will be invited.
ACTIVITIES
• the participants will experiment the applicability of the Principles and the
usability of the Handbook.
GOALS
• to create a network of tutors in the Partners' organisations, able to
replicate seminars and workshops well beyond the duration of the MEDCULT
project;
• to fully involve partners from southern, eastern and northers sides of the
Mediterranean basin into the organisation of the workshops
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Partners
•Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali,
MiBAC (ITALY, coordinator)
•La Fondation Maison des Science de
l'Homme, Coordinator of the STRABON network
(FRANCE)
•Ministère de la culture, Centre Multimédia
d'inventaire et de documentation du
patrimoine (MOROCCO)
• CultNat, Bibliotheca Alexandrina (EGYPT)
• Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities,
Department of Antiquities (JORDAN)
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http://www.minervaeurope.org
http://www.minervaeurope.org
/MEDCULT/home.html
[email protected]
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